, 1887-06-16

when she picked it up;
think it has been used for
II bed shat; the bed my
sister and Teller occupied had Stats,
don't know the size; when started
out to give the pistol to my sister
the bed was not made up; don't
know whether slat was gone or not;
have never been inside the house
since 1t happened; did not notice
condition OF the bed that morning.
Re-cross. Court measures oed slat,
Al inches long.
was to have "A share of the crop,
and Mrs. Teller to remain and keep
house; j know his wife has a mort
gage on the horses | was working
there; 1 did not tell her when ] gave
her the pistol that Teller had taken
the gun down and loaded Ii; arn sub
ject to nose bleed; my nose COM
menced bleeding Monday evening
after / got home and bled three or
four minutes; went to the front steps
and sat down when bleeding; don't
think moved any; this is the axe
that Is kept on the place; i know
what the marks are, it is pitch off
the wagon, l. g. wagon grease;
Shown red murk) think from pine
or birch bark, looks like blood; don't
recollect Of having it when my nose
bled, think it's bark stain; (shown
mark near end Of helve) don't know
what it is unless it is paint from the
inside of wagon box, same us the
other; there Is n mortgage on all the
horses to Mary Teller for the sum of
Si0O; think ii WIS given this spring,
or winter; nothing paid as | know
O., 1,i l. .t,v,. t.x,.
Explanation by witness. After
che shot him the first time she
turned one horse loose.
PrOsecutiOn.-Onr response to- Ques-
tiOn) This all happened i'm Spokane
county, Washington territory; had
nose bleed between sundown and
dark Monday evening; did not no.
tice it when 1 went out to give Mary
revolver; | can't say exactly how far
the blood would be from the steps
when / had nose bleed; could not
have been over two feet; don't know
whether / testified before the coro-
ner's jury where my sister got the
pistol or not.
BY defendants attorney--I was
excited, but not scared; on the morn
ing of the inquest | was excited.
Dr. g. ;. Penfield sworn and testi-
fed: Am coroner Of Spokane county
held an inquest over the body of IL
man one and One-half miles west OF
Deep Creek Falls; supposed to be the
body of John Teller; know John Du-
gan by sight; he was witness be-
fore the coroner's jury at that time,
May 3lst. 1887; heard part Of his tes-
tlmOny read by the court; think the
place was the same (witness shown
diagram and pronounced it very
similarly Was there Wednesday, the
morning after the killing; he, Teller,
was lying on his face with his hands
underneath him, with the eft side
of the face exposed to view1 had not
been recently moved, as be dusty
ground showed 40 traces Of the APP
proach nf aHy one, whicn would
easily have been observed; there was
considerable blood under his hea0
and at the side, having come from
his nostrils and mouth; body had notN
lain in that position long, not to eXr
ceeG twenty-four hours; he was not |
bleeding then; could not say how |
long blood had ceased to flow; saw
blood between deceased and tha |
than the rest, perhaps three inches |
pointed ut one end; other pools in |
close proximity to the larger one,
which was about five feet from the !
steps; there was no blood between
deceasedsand front gate; assisted i'm
the examination of the body; re-
moved his clothing; taking Off ev.
erything except his stockings and |
searching him closely fer bullet |
holes, supposing him to have been
shot, and for the benefit of the jury.
am physician; examined HIM very |
but found no bullet holes;
the lowest mark from the head was
near the heart and about the size OF !
a two-bit piece: spot livld; epider-
mis- off; could not tell whether it was
made by bullet; was not serious
and would not have knocked him
down; there Was another similar
mark near the shoulder, not serious;
found a small hole just
behind right ear, about midday
and at first glance supposed to be
bullet hole; / took knife and made
three incisions, laid back the two
flaps that we might examine the
skull, but found no trace of bullet
marks on the skull, witch was
smooth and intact; wound probably
made by the slat; right ear also bruis-
ed by the blow, the only place where
the skin was denuded; we examin-
ed the skull and found it rominuded,
fractured in every part. On the left
side was large culsus, or indenta-
ton one could lay their hand in;
there were no other marks of Vio-
lence; examined mouth, eyes, etc,
for bullet wounds but discovered no
examined only the
pockets of clothing.
Cross Xamined-Wounds on the
the body might have been made
with spent bullet, but do not be.
lieve they were; have had no ex-
perience of this kind to know
such shock would knock
4 man down; do not think it would;
the human skull ~ from One.nuarter